Yeah, I've seen that online already. The cover artist (or to be fair, whatever art/marketing/etc. director chose the artist and the models and such) also seems to be of the school of thought that says if you have a Caucasian cover model, all you need to do to make him look Indian is give him long, dark hair and slap on a lot of bronzer. Although that seems to be true of most of the Indian romances out there, really: if I *ever* see one where the cover model looks more like Rodney Grant or Adam Beach than Fabio-with-a-heavy-tan, I might just have to buy the stupid thing just on general principles.
The character names, OTOH, are all Edwards' fault, and the hero's is rather goofy -- although since the heroine's moniker also seems a little improbable for the time and place, there's at least an odd sort of fairness there. I will admit to a sort of morbid curiosity as to whether the rest of the Indian cast have equally Hollywood-translation-sounding names, and the rest of the Anglo characters have names that sound like they're straight from a soap opera, or if she just does that sort of thing to make the central couple more Speshul.
So far the one thing I can see that she *has* gotten right, well not counting the passages she didn't write herself, is having alcohol as a huge factor in social turmoil in that era; it was a serious destabilizing factor in Iroquois society of the late 1700s. I'm just really, really freakin' grateful that she at least set this thing a few years before a new religious movement started addressing those problems; if she were throwing in the Gai'wiio as background color to one of her Mighty Savage Wangfests, my already-astronomical level of outrage would just rocket right off the freakin' charts.
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Date: 2008-01-23 06:42 am (UTC)The character names, OTOH, are all Edwards' fault, and the hero's is rather goofy -- although since the heroine's moniker also seems a little improbable for the time and place, there's at least an odd sort of fairness there. I will admit to a sort of morbid curiosity as to whether the rest of the Indian cast have equally Hollywood-translation-sounding names, and the rest of the Anglo characters have names that sound like they're straight from a soap opera, or if she just does that sort of thing to make the central couple more Speshul.
So far the one thing I can see that she *has* gotten right, well not counting the passages she didn't write herself, is having alcohol as a huge factor in social turmoil in that era; it was a serious destabilizing factor in Iroquois society of the late 1700s. I'm just really, really freakin' grateful that she at least set this thing a few years before a new religious movement started addressing those problems; if she were throwing in the Gai'wiio as background color to one of her Mighty Savage Wangfests, my already-astronomical level of outrage would just rocket right off the freakin' charts.